“The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness. Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must alsoContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Necessary Sordidness of Cash (Herman Melville)”
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RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“…suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’s leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“Aye, aye!, it was that accursed white whale that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye.” he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob like that of a heart-stricken moose. Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for everContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: A Fearless Man May be the Most Dangerous Man (Herman Melville)
‘I will have no man in my boat’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerousContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Fearless Man May be the Most Dangerous Man (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Regalness of Sperm Oil! (Herman Melville)
“But the only thing to be considered here, is this-what kind of oil is used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Regalness of Sperm Oil! (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Celebratory BBQ of the Cannibals (Herman Melville)
“I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when great battle had been gained there, to barbeque all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then one by one, they were placed in a great wooden trenches, and garnishedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Celebratory BBQ of the Cannibals (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The View of a Good Presbyterian as to Other’s Religious Obligations (Herman Melville)
“I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical. And could not find it my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footsmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The View of a Good Presbyterian as to Other’s Religious Obligations (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Who is Captain Ahab? (Herman Melville)
“He’s a queer man, Captain Ahab-so some think-but a good one. Oh, thou’lt like him well enough; no fear, no fear. He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, asContinue reading “RKS Literature: Who is Captain Ahab? (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Mrs. Hosea Hussey’s Nantucket Clam Chowder (Herman Melville)
“However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazelnuts, the whole enriched with butter, and salted pork cutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mrs. Hosea Hussey’s Nantucket Clam Chowder (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Who are these People from Nantucket? (Herman Melville)
“The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships, to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah’s flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. HeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Who are these People from Nantucket? (Herman Melville)”
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